News Extract 20th March 2017

Ø  How security agencies, INEC, Head of Service, others opposed legalization of Peace Corps.

A host of existing law enforcement agencies led by the police and the State Security Service loathe the Nigerian Peace Corps, and they won’t stop at just that; they would also do all they can to ensure it is not registered, PREMIUM TIMES findings reveal.

Like the security agencies, other government paraastatals like the electoral commission, INEC, and the Head of Service also opposed the legalisation of the Peace Corps.

PREMIUM TIMES

Ø  Division in Rivers APC forced me to leave

A former aide to ex-Governor Peter Odili, Chief Glory Emeh, said he decided to leave the All Progressives Congress because of the division in the opposition party in Rivers State.

Emeh said in an interview with The PUNCH that he eventually went back to the Peoples Democratic Party because the APC in the state lacked leadership and direction.

        PUNCH

Ø  Doctor stops on Third Mainland bridge, jumps into lagoon 

Lagos State Emergency Agency (LASEMA) on Sunday said it received a distress call of a man who committed suicide on Third Mainland Bridge.

The agency said the individual parked his grey coloured Nissan SUV with registration number LND 476 EE at about 4.50 pm before Adekunle, inward 3rd Mainland bridge and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon.

DAILY POST

Ø  Police arrests killers of Edo Politician.

The Edo State Police Command has arrest­ed five suspects over the murder of the former Chairman of Etsako East Local Government Area, Hon Suleiman Afegbua,

He was killed last Thurs­day along Benin-Auchi Ex­press Road by hoodlums who eyewitnesses alleged were armed herdsmen.

The state Commissioner of Po­lice, Mr Haliru Gwandu, confirmed that Suleiman was about fleeing the scene of the incident when he was shot by the gunmen who thought he was about shooting at them.

BREAKING TIMES

Ø  NNPC Moves to Recover N11bn Missing Petrol from Capital Oil

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Friday announced measures to achieve full recovery of over 130 million litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, stored in the facilities of two indigenous downstream operators, MRS Limited and Capital Oil & Gas Limited, under a throughput arrangement to ensure a robust strategic reserve.

Providing details of the act by the companies, Mr. Henry Ikem-Obih, NNPC Chief Operating Officer, Downstream, told journalists in Abuja that the infraction was discovered earlier in the year when the Corporation had need to access the over 100 million litres of petrol stored at the Capital Oil & Gas depot for NNPC Retail and just over 30 million litres in MRS Limited depot all in Apapa area of Lagos.

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